Michael Scott

Random House Children’s will release the second e-book original from New York Times bestselling author Michael Scott, "Billy the Kid and the Vampyres of Vegas: A Lost Story from the Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel." The story is intended whet fans' appetites for The Enchantress (May 2012), the  final book in Scott's six-part series, The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel.

Year-to-date sales of U.S. trade e-books sold through wholesale channels show an increase of more than 204 percent over sales through June 2009.

For the first time in the publisher's history, Random House Children's Books has released an e-book of an original, not-previously-published work. The e-book, written by New York Times bestselling author Michael Scott, is entitled "The Death of Joan of Arc: A Lost Story from the Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel."